MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 01593nam a22002538a 4500
001 2012008954
003 DLC
005 20120320121401.0
008 120313s2012 pau b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2012008954
020 $a9780822944133 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aRD120.6$b.H36 2012
082 00 $a362.1979/5$223
100 1 $aHamilton, David,$d1939-
245 12 $aA history of organ transplantation /$cDavid Hamilton ; with a foreword by Clyde Barker and Thomas E. Starzl.
260 $aPittsburgh, Pa. :$bUniversity of Pittsburgh Press,$cc2012.
263 $a1204
300 $ap. cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: Toward the Impossible -- Early Transplantation -- The Eighteenth Century -- The Reawakening -- Clinical and Academic Transplantation in Paris -- The Beginning of Organ Transplantation -- The Lost Era of Transplantation Immunology -- Anarchy in the 1920s -- Progress in the 1930s -- Understanding the Mechanism -- Experimental Organ Transplantation -- Transplantation Tolerance and Beyond -- Hopes for Radiation Tolerance -- The Emergence of Chemical Immunosuppression -- Support from Hemodialysis and Immunology in the 1960s -- Progress in the Mid-1960s -- Brain Death and the "Year of the Heart" -- The Plateau of the Early 1970s -- The Arrival of Cyclosporine -- Waiting for the Xenografts -- Conclusion: Lessons from the History of Transplantation.
650 0 $aTransplantation of organs, tissues, etc.$xHistory.
650 0 $aOrgan transplantation$xHistory.